2016 PCA Coverage & Results

Check this page regularly for updates from the throughout the 2016 PCA festival, where our team of expert bloggers will provide updates direct from the tournament floor, including news on prize pool payouts, final table profiles, photo galleries and more.

2016 PCA - January 6 - 14, 2016 - Event Results

On this page you will find full results from all 100 scheduled poker events from PCA 2016, plus Player Lists, Gallery Photos, Payouts, Video Coverage and Final Table information from the Super High Roller, Main Event and High Roller tournaments.

Final Table

Seat 1: Mike "SirWatts" Watson, 31, St. John's, Canada, PokerStars player
Mike “SirWatts” Watson has been a regular on the live poker scene for over ten years with a sterling resumé to show for it. With more than $8.3 million in live tournament winnings, the 31-year-old Canadian from St. John's (the capital of Newfoundland) currently sits in fifth place on his country’s all-time money list. In the last decade, he has accrued an astonishing 38 WSOP cashes, a WPT Bellagio title worth $1.6 million and numerous EPT high roller results. These include a runner-up finish in the EPT11 Grand Final €50k Super High Roller, third place in both the EPT9 Barcelona €50k SHR and the 2013 PCA 2013 $25k High Roller. With 15 cashes for more than $100k, Watson might well add another one here at the PCA. Watson is also highly successful online. Known as "SirWatts" on PokerStars, he won two watches in the latest SCOOP.

Seat 2: Vladimir Troyanovskiy, 42, St Petersburg, Russia, PokerStars qualifier
Troyanovskiy first learned poker at the age of 13 when his older brother introduced him to 5 Card Draw. He later honed his skills playing Hold’em and Omaha in clubs in his home city and Moscow and is now widely acknowledged as one of Russia's top poker ambassadors (while still also able to find time to run businesses back home). Now 42, Troyanovskiy has been playing EPTs since Season 3 when he competed at the EPT Grand Final in Monaco. Since then, he has amassed more than $3.9 million in live tournament winnings; the majority come courtesy of big results in live PokerStars events in Europe and in Asia. Currently ranked sixth in the Russia all time money list, Troyanovskiy is no slouch online either and won his trip to this year’s PCA in a $320 NL Deep Hyper-Turbo satellite on PokerStars. He was a serious contender for last year’s EPT Player of the Year title with a run of great results which included third in the EPT11 Super High Roller in Barcelona for €473,200 and ninth in the €100k Super High Roller at the Grand Final for €199,620. He hasn’t let up in Season 12 either: three cashes in Barcelona, two in Malta and three at EPT Prague in December including runner-up in the €5k 8-Game, and tenth in the €25k High Roller for €49,000. His best live result was at the 2013 PCA when he was runner-up to Vanessa Selbst in the $25k High Roller for $792,180. Other big results include fifth in the EPT9 Grand Final €100k for €339,500 and seventh in the 2013 PCA $100k for $257,580.

Seat 3: Randy Kritzer, 58, Greensboro, North Carolina/USA
The oldest player in the final nine is Randy Kritzer, a 58-year-old who hails from North Carolina. He's now playing the tournament of his life, being already guaranteed nearly triple his total live tournament winnings. Kritzer's Hendon Mob profile page might not be too impressive with $27k listed in cashes. However, they include three WSOP cashes. Five years ago, he finished 21st in a $1k event at the World Series, taking nearly $14k –a sum he has more than bettered here in the PCA Main Event. This is not Kritzer's first trip to the Bahamas, he played at last year's PCA as well and notched up two cashes. However, none were anywhere close to the prizes up for grabs for getting to the final nine. Kritzer admits that the spotlight of cameras on the feature table is something new to him and he needs to get used to it. But, it's almost certain that his hands won't be shaking at all - he's a surgeon specialising in Neurosurgery and has been in practice in his hometown Greensboro since 1990. He is also the president and founder of Carolina Neurosurgery. Busy with his occupation, Kritzer came to the PCA to play just one event and it turned to be a smart choice.

Seat 4: David Eldridge, 35, Gibsonia, Pennsylvania/USA
Last year, David Eldridge went deep in the PCA Main Event. He was eliminated in 46th place, taking $27,700. One year wiser, the 35-year-old from Pennsylvania has secured a back-to-back cash here in the flagship tournament. More than that, he's bested his 2015 result and has now made it to the final nine. To date, Eldridge has just over $340k in live tournament winnings including five WSOP cashes. Although he has a World Series final table appearance under his belt, his biggest cash came at last summer's Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Florida. He won the $1k event there to scoop $146,100.

Seat 5:Tony Gregg, 29, Columbia, Maryland, USA, PokerStars player
Tony Gregg is the only player who has ever made it to two PCA Main Event final tables - and now seems very close to making it a hat trick. Nicknamed "End Boss", he was runner up at the PCA 2009 Main Event (the largest one in history) when he walked away with $1.7 million - and three ago, was back in the spotlight, finishing sixth for another $364k.

Should he repeat his 2012 performance, Gregg will move past the $10 million mark in live tournament earnings. Having won a WSOP bracelet in the 2013 $111.111 One Drop High Roller where he cashed for $4,830,619 and a WPT title at the Parx Poker Open in 2013 for $416,127, Tony Gregg has reached the final nine with every intention of completing the Triple Crown of poker.

His online results are also remarkable. Under the screen name "wwwBTHEREcom", he has accumulated more than $1.5 million in cashes. Among his results are a $2k 1R1A SCOOP 2013-High title for $197,720 and a Sunday Million victory in 2011 for $195,000. Gregg is a former “Magic: the Gathering” player and backed WSOP Main Event champion Greg Merson in his 2012 victory.

Seat 6: Toby Lewis, 26, Southampton, UK, PokerStars player
British Pro Toby Lewis is the only EPT champion left in this year’s PCA. His title came at EPT7 Vilamoura when he beat WSOP Main Event champion Martin Jacobson heads up to cash for €467,836. His total winnings are just shy of $2.7 million. However, Lewis is also well-known for his online poker success under the screen name "810ofclubs". On PokerStars alone, he has cashed for almost $3.5 million with over $720K in profits. His largest score came from a $215+R WCOOP win in 2013 for $189,379. He also has a final table in the Main Event-High of SCOOP 2011 where he finished 6th for $167,200.

Lewis started playing poker in casinos, mostly low buy in tournaments, when he turned 18. After graduating college he became an online cash game regular, playing as high as $5/10 up until he won a tournament in Brighton. That's when he fell in love with MTTs. As far as his influences, he quotes fellow B
rits Chris Moorman, Craig McCorkell and Tom Middleton as having a big impact in his career.

Final Table

Seat 1: Bryn "BrynKenney" Kenney, 29, Long Beach, United States, 3,820,000 chips
The chip leader of the final table is Super High Roller regular Bryn Kenney and he certainly knows how to get to this stage in the Bahamas. The 29-year-old American has finished third, twice here, back at the PCA 2011 (for $643,000) and 2014 (for $873,880). Kenney's live tournament winnings exceed $6.7 million and on top of that, he's an online beast as well with a profit on PokerStars of over one million dollars. Kenney's biggest online payday came during the 2013 WCOOP, where he took $350k for a runner-up finish in the $2k NLH Event. He also has a SCOOP title under his belt after winning the $2k NLH Turbo Zoom in 2014 for another $160k.

Seat 2: Ike Haxton, 30, Malta, 1,395,000
Whilst Ike Haxton might be the elder statesman of the final table –and at 30 that’s quite scary – this is actually his first EPT Super High Roller final table. Final tables at equivalent events in Asia and Australia mean though that Haxton has over $10,000,000 in lifetime cashes in live tournaments and the PCA is, of course, where it all began for him.
At the 2007 PCA he recorded his first live cash and what a cash it was, as he finished runner-up to Ryan Daut in the Main Event for $861,789.

Seat 3: David Peters, 28 Toledo, Ohio, United States, 2,085,000
Whilst a lot of the attention of the past few weeks has been on Fedor Holz’s incredible run, the feats of David Peters in the same time frame have largely flown under the radar. That’s the way you suspect the quiet professional would want it though. He was runner-up to Holz in the $200,000 buy-in event in the Philippines (good for over $2,300,000) and also won a $25,000 High Roller in Las Vegas in late December, earning a further $426,240.
Twelve months ago Peters bubbled this event but he’s got that particularly monkey off his back this year and his cash in this event has taken his live tournament cashes over the $10,000,000 mark. Today he has the chance to add an EPT Super High Roller title the EPT High Roller title he won in Malta in March of last year.

Seat 4: Joe McKeehen, 24, Pennsylvania, United States, 2,805,000 chips
Joe McKeehen is a player who needs little introduction. This November he led the WSOP Main Event final table from wire to wire to become the 46th world champion.
This is his first ever EPT Super High Roller and he’s proving that his WSOP victory was no fluke and he’s more than held his own in exalted company. His first tournament win came at the PCA back in 2012 when he won a $2,000 no-limit Hold’em turbo event for $ 116,230 whilst in the same year he finished 10th in the $10,000 six-max High Roller.
Poker is not the only game that McKeehen can claim a world title in as in 2010 he won the world championship in the board game Risk.

Seat 5: Ankush "pistons87" Mandavia, 28, Atlanta, United States, 3,360,000 chips
Ankush ‘pistons87’ Mandavia is one of poker’s true all-rounder’s having conquered cash games, transitioned to high stakes sit and gos and won WCOOP and SCOOP titles.
Whilst a truly big live result has thus far eluded him, wherever he finishes today he’ll have recorded his highest live tournament cash, breaking that record for the second time in three weeks as he won just over $300,000 when he finished fifth in the $100,000 WPT Alpha8 in Las Vegas last month.

Seat six: Mustapaha Kanit, 24, Sliema, Italy, 1,030,000
If there were such a thing as the EPT High Roller Triple Crown – and we’ve just decided there is – then if he wins today Mustapha Kanit will have completed it in just over seven months.
The Italian started the ball rolling in May when he won the first ever ‘One Day Super High Roller’ in Monte Carlo. Victory in that €50,000 event was good for € 936,500 and was followed up with another first place in the €10,000 High Roller at EPT12 Barcelona in August, which added another € 738,759 to live winnings that now total over $5,000,000.
He’s always an entertaining presence at the live table, but he can also cut it in the online arena having racked up over $4,000,000 in cashes at the virtual felt including winning the $10,000 SCOOP Main Event in 2015. That wasn’t his first SCOOP title either as he won his first watch in 2014 when he took down a $2,100 NLHE Turbo, Re-Entry event.